> In case you're interested, this is from the
> "NewsScan Daily" newsletter, 25/Sep/2002.
>
>
> TIBETAN LITERATURE GETS SECOND LIFE VIA DIGITAL
> PRESERVATION
> Thousands of historical Tibetan texts are being
> digitally scanned and
> recorded in an effort to save a wealth of literature
> that is threatened by
> age-related deterioration. The Tibetan Buddhist
> Resource Center, which is
> coordinating the project, has 12,000 volumes of
> Tibetan writings covering
> Buddhist philosophy, mathematics, alchemy and
> ancient exotica, among other
> topics. Many of the books came from refugees who
> carried them over the
> Himalayas when they fled from the Chinese invasion
> of Tibet in the 1950s.
> As there were no printing presses in Tibet, the
> books were either
> handwritten or printed from wooden blocks. The
> Center has enlisted the help of other organizations,
> including the Himalayan Art
> Project, the University of Virginia and the Tibetan
> Knowledge Consortium. Center founder E. Gene
> Smith estimates that when the project is complete,
> there will be 8.4
> million individual digital images of the texts.
> "What we are doing is
> creating a database," says Smith. "We will provide
> it initially on CD-ROM
> and we hope that we can eventually have a Web site
> so that the images are
> available anywhere in the world." (BBC News 24 Sep
> 2002)
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2271016.stm
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html
> "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments
> of transition, to be born in moments of
> revelation.
> No one knows the shape of that future or where it
> will take us. We know only that it is always born
> in pain." -- G'Kar quoting G'Quon, in "Babylon